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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Indian tea workers burn their boss and his wife to death

Tea plantation workers torched the home of their boss, killing both
him and his wife, following a labour dispute in the northeastern Indian
state of Assam, officials said on Thursday.

Around 1,000 workers at the privately-owned M.K.B. Tea Estate
attacked the plantation owner's bungalow on Wednesday and set it on fire
in violence blamed on festering labour unrest in the tea-growing
region, police said.

Mridul Bhattacharya and his wife Rita were burned to death as workers
armed with home-made weapons prevented police from rescuing them, they
said.
"The body of the planter was charred beyond recognition and reduced
to ashes while the body of the wife was found lying in the kitchen,"
local police officer A. Das told AFP by telephone.

The grisly attack occurred in Assam's tea-growing Tinsukia district,
some 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the state's main city of
Guwahati.

The Indian Express newspaper said the violence was sparked by orders
served by Bhattacharya on 10 estate workers to vacate their quarters and
the detention of three employees by police over unspecified disputes.

Plantation workers were seen on local television channels admitting to having carried out an attack.
"We all came and attacked the bungalow and set it on fire. They
deserved to be killed as the planter has exploited us for a long time
and tortured us for petty things," a tea estate female worker said on
News Live local TV channel.

The station did not identify the woman.

Assam produces around 55 percent of India's annual tea production,
which stood at 988.32 million kilograms (2,174.3 million pounds) last
year, and the state is home to more than 800 tea estates.

Not surprised. Indians are known to be slave drivers anywhere they area. Expecting this kind of revolution from airtel soon. Where people are working ungodly number of hours for peanuts and the nonsence govt turning a blind eye. Won't talk much. Go to opic plaza in abeokuta and weep for ur country men.

Hey.... Dis is a good news... Cos when plpp re pushed to d wall dey will react... Dis kind of things ought to start happening in Nigeria...D tea plantation owner and his wife re very wicked plpp... Dey receive dere jugdement and died a shameful death.... Hey foolish and coward Nigeria dis is not Aluu copy... Dis is a good justice to wickedness...